A company in looks Angeles that makes after-market service parts for helicopters necessityed help roughing out a rotor blade ingredient that was machined on the outside of solid titanium.

A company in looks Angeles that makes after-market service parts for helicopters necessityed help roughing out a rotor blade ingredient that was machined on the outside of solid titanium. The helicopter part, called a titanium source fitting, is basically a pair of contoured titanium hands that grip the main rotor blade, attaching it to the rotor. There is a top and a bottom hand, the two machined from a single 85 x 9 x 1.5-in. stop of titanium.

Initially MB Manufacturing and Tooling Corporation of Santee, Calif., was contracted to do the roughing operations, hogging public about 50% of the material

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